On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 04:33:35PM +0200, Sander Striker wrote: > Hi, > > Where do we want apr-serf to go? Incubator or Commons? > It would be nice to set an example, since we already > know we don't really want serf to stay in APR (or do we?). > > Thoughts?
[ IMO, of course :-) ] apr-serf goes straight to Commons. There isn't a reason to ensure that committers are "indoctrinated", as they already are. There isn't a code donation to worry about. Instead, you have a very small community, moving at a slow pace. But none of it "needs" the training and governance of the incubator. There is potentially a notion of "incubator must hold new codebases until they grow up." I don't think that is a requirement, but I *do* support the destination PMC (Commons) saying, "you're a new codebase which applies here, and while I believe you meet all the basic community guideliness, it would be best for you to get the visibility as a 'starter' project that the incubator would provide; thus, we won't accept you now, but will recommend your inclusion as part of the incubator." In short, PMCs can "send" starter projects over to the incubator for a while. That said, I'd be a bit tweaked if Commons could not contain anything but "grown up" codebases, and said we had to go to the incubator first. Being part of the Commons PMC, I know where I'd vote :-) Cheers, -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
